Re: [Glossary] Definition of a portable document (and other things...)

Yes, and let me piggyback on this to try to make my point (to Ivan) more
clear.

I think that the ability to reliably *capture a snapshot and use it offline*
is a righteous *feature* for a Web Document to offer. And, the results of
that snapshot might be itself a (new instance of a) "Portable [Web]
Document".

But to me that does *not* make the original Web Document itself a "Portable
Web Document" because what is captured with the snapshot is not a true
representation of the original document.

Leonard's dashboard example is a perfect illustration. Take a dashboard
like http://status.aws.amazon.com/ .  I can't imagine calling that a
"Portable Web Document".

I think we are here confusing offline features of Web Documents with what
is a Portable [Web] Document. I don't believe they are at all the same
thing. And I am still convinced we can come up with a definition for the
latter that is neither anthropocentric nor fundamentally subjective.

--Bill



On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Olaf Drümmer <olaf@druemmer.com> wrote:

> But we may want to keep in mind that being able to capture a snapshot
> (kind of a 'frozen state') could be a valid feature, as much as being able
> to update when (after having been offline) being online again. Not sure
> whether a 'deep freeze' switch would be a metadata item in the portable
> document (== do not update me), or whether the document would have to be
> written into a portable document such that it simply doesn't update it
> itself anymore.
>
> Olaf
>
>
> On 10 Sep 2015, at 18:16, Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@ADOBE.COM> wrote:
>
> One of the best examples/use cases that we have in this area is a
> “Dashboard”, as you might get to visualize any sort of data.
>
> You would like this dashboard to be portable – so that it can be used both
> online and offline.  But in the online case, the document should be able to
> get the latest set of data and then store that away for offline use (aka
> caching, but explicit instead of implicit).
>
> So yes – I think we are now getting into the “state” of the document.  It
> is portable but can be in different states.
>
>
>


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